In foo.debian-user, you wrote: > 1.) I somehow managed to delete my /var/log/news > directory and was getting boot errors. I apparently > fixed it by recreating the directory as root but that > made the /news subdir owned by root:root. Is this > correct or should it be owned by root:news? [promt]$ ls -ld /var/log/news drwxr-xr-x 2 news news 1024 Sep 12 1998 /var/log/news